Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi asks police to reduce his security cover, calls it ‘wastage of resources’

Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi said, "I am one of you and I don't need an army of 1,000 security personnel to protect me from my own brethren." 

Kapurthala: Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Thursday (September 23) said he has asked the state police to reduce his security cover as having so many men to protect him is a "sheer wastage of resources".

Overruling the rationale of threat to his life, Channi said he is a "common man" and "brother of every Punjabi".

"I am one of you and I don't need an army of 1,000 security personnel to protect me from my own brethren," said Channi during his address at Kapurthala's IK Gujral Punjab Technical University, according to a statement.